Uniform edition of Svevo's works. Confessions of Zeno, As a man grows older, A life.

Svevo, Italo;

Verlag: Secker & Warburg, London, 1962

Beschreibung

8vo, 1st editions thus. Volume 1 & 2 published in 1962, volume 3 is a true First English edition published in 1963, pp 448 + 220 + 320 Publisher's original blue cloth, with silver lettering to the spines of each volume. Unclipped Dust Jackets. Overall Very Good condition. A fair amount of foxing on the fore-edges of each volume, in particular volume 2. Inscriptions in ink to front endpapers in volume 1 & 2. Extremely faint signs of minor loss to top spine of each Dust Jacket, otherwise each in remarkably Very Good condition. Lower rim of volume 3 showing traces of discolouration. Front cover of Volume 1 has some soiling. Rare to find these handsome early editions, which we are selling as a 3 volume set. Italo Svevo, whom Alberto Moravia has called one of the three greatest Italian writers of the last hundred years, was born in Trieste in 1861 when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. By the choice of his pen-name (Ettore Schmitz was his name by birth) he symbolized his mixed Italian and middle-European origin and cultural tradition. His first two novels, one at least of which is now regarded as a masterpiece, attracted no attention when first published. But ten years later James Joyce read them with enthusiasm and persuaded Svevo to take up his pen again. It was with the publication of his third novel, Confessions of Zeno, that Svevo's qualities began to be widely acclaimed. In this story of a well-to-do man, his courtship and marriage, his mistress, his business dealings with his brother-in-law, and his psycho-analysis, Svevo combines an ironic method which has been compared with Musil's with subtle characterisation and a lively sense of narrative and form. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 036972

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Uniform edition of Svevo's works. ...

Verlag: Secker & Warburg, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1962

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good